McCain condemns Rumsfeld, after having praised him in November., plitch bease. Options

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BBC article.

A front runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination says ex-Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will go down as one of the worst in history.

Senator John McCain also accused the administration of mismanaging the war.

Other Republicans have distanced themselves from the war and from President George W Bush.

But Mr McCain had been seen as an important backer of Mr Bush's efforts to drum up political support for his new Iraq policy.

Ok, so now that he's being bludgeoned with criticism for having got too close to the current Administration's policies on defense matters the guy shifts 180º back to where he originally stood when people thought he was a member of the more independent faction within the Republican party.

He still looks like the standard right wing politician to me ever since he started leaving the right of the center position circa October 2004, however this move may have different effects on other people considering the image that was build around McCain being the "hip" Republican.